Posted on 03/29/2011 5:30:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
This is indeed, Good News! I have had it for three years. Though I can mostly ignore it, there are days when it drives me nuts!
BTTT
I have had it for 30 years now....I do know the sound of silence....
sorry... I meant I do NOT know the sound of silence...need more coffee
Huh? Don't more than 50 million Americans take medicine? How do they correlate this with tinnitus?
certain medications are known to damage the auditory nerve,as even the simple aspirin is capable.
Some medicines, most notably ASPIRIN, can cause tinnitus as a side effect. Some cough syrups can too............
I’ve had this problem for decades and it’s partly the reason I now have to wear hearing aids. Sometimes the ringing is so loud, especially in the mornings when I first get up, I can barely hear what my husband is trying to say to me. Which isn’t always such a bad thing...lol
Shirley you know the sound of silence. If not, learn about it below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q
Seriously, I've had tinnitus for several years now. Silence would be very nice sometimes.
(And I'll stop calling you Shirley.)
Taking aspirin, large doses of aspirin, can cause tinnitus.
I can’t remember how long I’ve had it, but it is always there. Aaaaachhhh!
Do you take blood pressure medicine?.............
Huh? I can't remember a time when I didn't have an annoying ringing in my ears; I've never known silence. Currently tinnitus sufferers can learn to ignore it -- it's about all we have. While a new way to help ignore it is certainly welcome, I've found temporary relief tends to be more frustrating than helpful. When the temporary relief ends, the sound seems even louder and more intrusive. It's a lot like giving a starving person a piece of chocolate.
When I pay attention to it it sounds like I’m sitting in the middle of a swamp after sundown with millions of crickets and other chirping insect noise.
It’s getting worse and worse, so loud at times it drives me crazy.
This treatment may be effective for recently begun cases of tinnitus.
For us that have had it for decades, we already have learned to ignore it.........
I know.
I have that same feeling.
It’s okay, since I live in Florida!...............
Interesting. I have a mild ringing in my ears (professional musician). It doesn’t bother me, but I imagine it will get worse if I live long enough. I’ve never sought treatment, so obviously mine isn’t that bad.
No, I’ve had this problem as far back as I can remember to at least early adulthood, I’m 58 now. I actually am not sure when it started. I just can never remember not having the problem, except during childhood. I did have a lot of ear infections as a child, which makes me wonder about that. And I also have calcification or hardening of that little hammer bone in my ear.
I might be interested in this. My tinnitus began in my late 20s (I’m 60) when I was a AF missile officer working in a loud environment and became worse in my 40s. It is now a very loud ringing although I can tune it out for the most part. It would be nice to be rid of it altogether.
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